KQ Webinar: Aligning Graphic Novels to the Standards

Presenter: Katie Monnin
One of the most exciting opportunities facing today’s teachers and
librarians is how to dualistically teach contemporary literature to both
the standards and the real world applications students face each and
every day in a more and more diverse literacy world. Fortunately,
graphic novels offer one possible answer. Deemed by contemporary
literacy scholarship to be one of the most viable and popular
contemporary literary formats, graphic novels can be aligned to both the
standards and the real life applications facing today’s students. This
webinar will focus on how to not only align graphic novels to the Common
Core State Standards, NCTE/IRA Standards, and the AASL learning
standards, but also to the real world, contemporary reading and writing
literacy realities.

Katie Monnin
is an assistant professor of literacy at University of North Florida in
Jacksonville. She has presented nationally at conferences on teaching
graphic novels in the classroom, image and print-text literacies, and
new media. Katie is co-editor of Florida Reading Quarterly. Her book, Teaching Graphic Novels, was a finalist for the 2009 ForeWord Education Book of the Year! She was selected to be a judge for the 2013 Eisner Awards.

Note: Webinar is open to AASL members and eCOLLAB
subscribers only. Registrations will be accepted until 10:00 am on
Tuesday, February 12. A seat in the webinar is guaranteed to the first
100 attendees. As a webinar registrant, you will receive follow-up
correspondence from AASL.